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Original Title	落ちてゆく世界
Author	久坂 葉子
Genre	Modern Short Fiction
Author Type	Female Author
Summary	In the hushed, decaying elegance of post-war Japan, Yukiko lives within the crumbling vestiges of her once-proud aristocratic family. Her days are a delicate balance of duty and secret defiance, as her ailing, eccentric father clings to fading glories, and her devout mother retreats into fervent faith. With one brother battling a consuming illness and another restless for a life beyond their suffocating estate, Yukiko becomes the reluctant pragmatist, forced to sell cherished heirlooms—and even her own blood—to keep the family afloat. As the line between ancestral pride and desperate survival blurs, Yukiko finds fleeting solace in art and the thrill of a gamble. But when the very foundations of her world begin to collapse, can she forge a path to freedom, or is she destined to be swept away by the current of a falling world?